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Further Reading Further Reading The Universe Aczel AD (2003) Entanglement. Plume, New York Barrow JD (2007) New Theories of Everything: The Quest for Ultimate Explanation. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford Barrow JD, Tipler FJ (1986) The Anthropic Cosmological Principle. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford Carr B ed. (2007) Universe or Multiverse? Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge Clegg B (2006) The God Effect: Quantum Entanglement, Science’s Strang- est Phenomenon. St. Martin’s Press, New York Clegg B (2009) Before the Big Bang: The Prehistory of our Universe. St. Martin’s Press, New York Davies P (1995) About Time: Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution. Orion Publications Davies P (2006) The Goldilocks Enigma: Why is the Universe just Right for Life? Penguin/Allen Lane, London Gasperini M (2008) The Universe Before the Big Bang: Cosmology and String Theory. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg Greene BR (1999) The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory. W.W. Norton & Co., New York Greene BR (2004) The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality. Alfred Knopf, US Green BR (2011) The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos. Alfred Knopf, New York Gribbin J (2009) In Search of the Multiverse. Allen Lane, London Guth AH (1997) The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins. Perseus Publishing Harwit M (1981) Cosmic Discovery: The Search, Scope and Heritage of Astronomy. Basic Books, New York Hawking S (1988) A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. Bantam Books, New York Hawking S (2002) The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe. New Millennium Press, Beverley Hills, CA Hawking S, Mlodinow L (2010) The Grand Design: New Answers to the Ultimate Questions of Life. Bantam Press, London P. Shaver, Cosmic Heritage, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-20261-2, 247 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 248 Cosmic Heritage Hawking S, Penrose, R (1996) The Nature of Space and Time. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton NJ Peebles PJE, Page LA, Partridge RB, (2009) Finding the Big Bang. Cambridge U. Press, Cambridge Rees M (1997) Before the Beginning: Our Universe and Others. Perseus Publishing, New York Rees M (1999) Just Six Numbers: the Deep Forces that Shape the Universe. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, UK Rees M (2001) Our Cosmic Habitat. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton Silk J (2005) On the Shores of the Unknown: A Short History of the Universe. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge Silk J (2006) The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the Frontiers of Cos- mology. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford Singh S (2004) Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and Why You Need to Know About It. Fourth Estate Smolin L (2007) The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next. Mariner Books, New York Steinhardt PJ, Turok N (2007) Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang. Doubleday, New York Susskind L (2005) The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design. Little, Brown & Co., New York Vilenkin A (2006) Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes. Hill and Wang, New York Weinberg S (1978) The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe. Fontana Paperbacks Life and Evolution Adams F (2002) Origins of Existence: How Life Emerged in the Universe. The Free Press, NY Austad SN (1997) Why we Age: What Science is Discovering about the Body’s Journey Through Life. Wiley, New York Bennett J, Shostak S, Jakosky B (2003) Life in the Universe. Addison Wesley, San Francisco, CA Bonner JT (2009) The Social Amoebae: The Biology of Cellular Slime Moulds. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton Bonnet R-M, Woltjer L (2008) Surviving 1,000 Centuries: Can We Do It? Springer-Praxis Publ., Chichester, UK Boss A (2009) The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets. Basic Books Cairns-Smith AG (1985) Seven Clues to the Origin of Life. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge Cochran G, Harpending H (2009) The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civili- zation Accelerated Human Evolution. Basic Books, New York Coyne JA (2009) Why Evolution is True. Viking Penguin, New York Darwin C (1859) The Origin of Species. John Murray, London Darwin C (1871) The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. John Murray, London Further Reading 249 Darwin C (1872) The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. John Murray, London Davies P (1999) The Origin of Life. Penguin Books, London Davies P (2010) The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelli- gence. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publ. Co., New York Dawkins R (1976) The Selfish Gene. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford Dawkins R (1988) The Blind Watchmaker. Penguin Books, London Dawkins R (1995) River out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, UK Dawkins R (1996) Climbing Mount Improbable. Viking Dawkins R (2009) The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolu- tion. Bantam Press, London De Deuve C (1995) Vital Dust: The Origin and Evolution of Life on Earth. Basic Books, New York Deamer D, Szostak JW eds (2010) The Origins of Life. Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory Press, New York Dennett DC (1995) Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. Allen Lane, London Diamond J (1992) The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal. HarperCollins, New York Diamond J (2005) Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the last 13,000 Years. Vintage Dyson F (1999) Origins of Life. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge Fairbanks DJ (2007) Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA. Prometheus Books, Amherst NY Fenchel T (2002) Origin & Early Evolution of Life. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford Finch CE (1994) Longevity, Senescence and the Genome. Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago Fortey R (1999) Life: A Natural History of the first Four Billion Years of Life on Earth. Vintage Books, New York Fry I (2000) The Emergence of Life on Earth: A Historical and Scientific Overview. Rutgers Univ. Press, New Brunswick, NJ Hayflick L (1994) How and Why we Age. Ballantine Books, New York Hazen RM (2005) Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origin. Joseph Henry Press, Washington DC Holldobler€ B, Wilson EO (2009) The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies. WW Norton, New York Holliday R (2010) Aging: The Paradox of Life, Why we Age. Springer, Dordrecht, NL Impey C (2007) The Living Cosmos: Our Search for Life in the Universe. Random House, New York Impey C ed (2010) Talking about Life: Conversations on Astrobiology. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge Jastrow R, Rampino M (2008) Origins of Life in the Universe. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge Kirkwood T (1999) Time of our Lives: The Science of Human Aging. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford 250 Cosmic Heritage Lane N (2005) Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford Lane N (2009) Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution. W.W. Norton, New York Larson EJ (2004) Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific The- ory. Modern Library, New York Luisi PL (2006) The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Syn- thetic Biology. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge Lunine JI (2005) Astrobiology: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Addison Wesley, San Francisco CA MacDougall JD (1996) A Short History of Planet Earth: Mountains, Mammals, Fire and Ice. John Wiley & Sons, US Maynard Smith J, Szathma´ry E (1999) The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origins of Language. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford Medina J (1996) The Clock of Ages: Why we Age – How we Age – Winding back the clock. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge Meyer A (2005) Hunting the Double Helix: How DNA is Solving Puzzles of the Past. Allen & Unwin, Sydney Morris R (2001) The Evolutionists: The Struggle for Darwin’s Soul.WH Freeman Palumbi S (2002) The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change. WW Norton, New York Pudritz et al eds (2007) Planetary Systems and the Origins of Life. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge Rauchfuss H (2010) Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg Regis E (2008) What is Life? Investigating the Nature of Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York Ridley M (1993) The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature. Viking, London Ridley M (1999) Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters. Fourth Estate, UK Ruse M, Travis J ed (2009) Evolution: The First Four Billion Years. Harvard Univ. 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